Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney Location of death: North Hollywood, CA Cause of death: unspecified Executive summary: Actor in Andy Hardy comedies, musicals Military service: US Army (PFC, served in "entertainment unit") Mickey Rooney's father, Joe Yule, was a vaudeville comic and actor, and Joe Jr. was part of his parents' stage act starting at about 18 months of age. The act ended, along with his parents' marriage, after Junior walked in on his father with another woman. He made his motion picture debut at the age of five, playing an adult midget in the 1926 silent short Not to Be Trusted. Beginning at age 6, he starred in dozens of silent-era comedy shorts, playing (and billed as) "Mickey McGuire". At 12 he became "Mickey Rooney", when his agent decided he needed a new name to land any roles beyond the McGuire shorts. "He never bothered to ask me whether I liked it", Rooney wrote in his autobiography. "This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others".

As an adolescent, Rooney co-starred with Judy Garland in a series of squeaky-clean MGM musicals, often revolving around the urgent need to put on a show in somebody's barn. Rooney starred in fifteen "Andy Hardy" movies, and made more than 200 other movies and half a dozen TV series. "I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years", he says.

Among Rooney's more famous movies, he played a gangster in Manhattan Melodrama (1934), a goodhearted crewman in Spencer Tracy 's Captains Courageous (1937), a juvenile delinquent in Tracy's Boys Town (1939), the cynical jockey and trainer in National Velvet (1944) with 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor , a caricature of a Japanese landlord in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) with Audrey Hepburn , a bitter boxing trainer in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) with Anthony Quinn and Jackie Gleason , a panicked man in a pilotless plane in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) opposite Buddy Hackett , and another horse trainer in The Black Stallion (1979) with Teri Garr . Rooney continued making movies well into his 80s, although they were usually low-budget direct-to-video atrocities. He was one of Hollywood's most married men. Barbara Ann Thomason, the fifth of his eight wives and mother of four of his ten children, was murdered in 1966.

The following year he married and divorced her good friend, Marge Lane. When he appeared on talk shows in the 1990s and 2000s, Rooney almost invariably reminded audiences that he was the number one box office star of 1939, 1940 and 1941. "I was the number one star in the world, you hear me? The world!" He then regaled the host with tales from his Hollywood history. He also said he came up with the stage name " Marilyn Monroe " for blonde innocent Norma Jean Baker, and lost his virginity in a brothel where the tab was paid by show-biz pal Milton Berle . He claimed to have "discovered" Sammy Davis, Jr. , and said he turned down the Archie Bunker role in All in the Family. He said that he became a born-again Christian in the early 1970s, when an angel appeared to him in a diner. And he fondly remembered being called "the best actor America ever produced" by Laurence Olivier . At some point, credulity snaps.

In 2005, Rooney filmed a commercial for a cold remedy, in which Rooney's towel slipped off in a sauna, exposing his 84-year-old buttocks for about two seconds. The ad, scheduled to premiere during the Super Bowl, was rejected by network censors. Rooney angrily described the commercial as "a fun spot", and said "the public deserves to see it". He died in 2014. Father: Joseph Ewell ("Joe Yule", vaudeville comic and actor) Mother: Nell Carter (chorus girl, vaudeville comic, b. circa 1899) Father: Fred D. Pankey (stepfather; restaurateur) Girlfriend: Lana Turner (actress, dated 1938-39) Wife: Ava Gardner (actress, m. 10-Jan-1942, div. 21-May-1943) Wife: Betty Jane Rase (Miss Alabama 1944; m. 30-Sep-1944, div. 3-Jun-1949, two children) Wife: Martha Vickers (actress, m. 3-Jun-1949, div.

25-Sep-1951, one child) Wife: Elaine Devry (actress, m. 1952, div. May-1959) Wife: Barbara Ann Thomason (actress, m. 1-Dec-1958, d. 31-Jan-1966, four children) Wife: Marge Lane (m. 1967, div. 1967) Wife: Carolyn Hockett (m. 1969, div. 1974) Wife: Jan Chamberlin (country singer, m. 18-Jul-1978) Daughter: Kimmy Rooney, Kelly Rooney, Kerry Rooney, Jonelle Rooney Son: Tim Rooney, Teddy Rooney, Mickey Rooney Jr., Kyle Rooney, Jimmy Rooney Son: Christopher Aber (stepson) Mickey Rooney, horoscope for birth date 23 September 1920, born in Brooklyn (Kings County), with Astrodatabank biography - Astro-Databank Mickey Rooney Biography American 5'2 tall actor who personified the ideal, wholesome all-American teenager in movies seen all around the world in the 1930s.

A young boy who worked in Hollywood during the Golden Years, Rooney became a Hollywood legend with his Andy Hardy series for MGM from 1937 to 1946. He was a top male box-office draw from 1939-1941. Rooney's portrayal of an enthusiastic, innocent young man helped pull in over $111 million in profits for Louis B. Mayer. He was given a special Academy Award in 1938 in appreciation for his talents and box office bonanza. Rooney's life was marked by talent, debts, bankruptcy and dramatic though short-lived marriages. While Rooney crested at the top with "Boy's Town" in 1939, his career began to take a dive when he became an adult demanding adult roles. The transition from a child and teen star to an adult actor was extremely difficult for the actor. In the '70s, he became more famous for his many marriages than his film career. In 1979, Rooney made his film comeback earning an Oscar nomination for "The Black Stallion." He won an Emmy award for best actor in the TV movie, "Bill" in 1981.

In 1979, he opened on Broadway the musical "Sugar Babies" and toured with the company for eight years and in 1998, the 78-year-old actor was touring in the theater musical production of "The Wizard of Oz" as the wizard. Rooney was born to a pair of vaudevillian performers. As Joe Yule, Jr., the boy first performed onstage at the age of fifteen months. In 1922, his parents divorced and his mother moved to Hollywood with her young son. He made his film debut at six years old playing a midget smoking a cigar. He was cast in 50 Mickey McGuire two-reel kid comedies that competed with the Little Rascals gang for the children's box office. Walt Disney liked his character so much that he named his cartoon mouse "Mickey." The young boy changed his name to Mickey Rooney and at 14 appeared as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He went on to major stardom with the Andy Hardy series.

He was nominated for Oscars for his performances in "Babes in Arms," 1939, "The Human Comedy," 1943 and "The Bold and the Brave" in 1956. His career went into decline when he returned to work after his military service in WW II. In 1948, he demanded out of his studio contract to become a free agent in Hollywood. By 1956, he had worked in the entertainment industry for 33 years had made 152 films, earning more than $600 million but managing to save a scant $2,345. He earned less money as the years went by and ended up in the minor film, "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" in 1965. Rooney worked on the dinner theater circuit in the '70s. He wrote two autobiographies, "i.e.," 1965 and "Life is Too Short" in 1991. He starred in the Family cable channel TV series, "The Adventures of the Black Stallion" in the early '90s.

He worked in the Toronto production of "Crazy for You" in 1995. In 1998, he was featured in the sequel, "Babe: Pig in the City." Rooney met his first wife, newly arrived starlet Ava Gardner on the set of "Babes In Arms." They married on 1/10/1942 in Ballard, CA a town in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains and miscast, divorced a year later, 5/21/1943. While Rooney was serving in the army, he met beauty queen Betty Jane Rase, a Miss Birmingham, Alabama. They married in 1944 and produced two sons, Mickey Jr. and Timothy. Rooney and Betty divorced in 1948 and the following hear he married actress Martha Vickers. He divorced his third wife in 1951 and married the former nude calendar model, Elaine Mahnken, in 1952. He cheated on her with his fifth wife, California beauty queen Barbara Ann Thomason, whom he married in 1958.

While he played around, she followed suit, cheating on him with the actor Milo Milosevic. In 1966, Thomason and Milosevic were found dead in a murder-suicide in Rooney's Los Angeles home. He had a hard time recovering; he did drugs for a decade following the trauma. He married Barbara's best friend, Marge Lane, in 1967 for 100 days. In 1969, he married a newspaper secretary Carolyn Hockett and they divorced in 1974. Rooney met and married his eighth wife, 39-year-old actress Jan Chamberlin in 1978. By this time he was the father of nine children, all of them good-looking, and he did not raise any of them. Together, he and Jan had 11 kids to support. With the help of his eighth wife, Rooney has been able to kick his dependency in alcohol and gambling on race horses. They filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy on 7/09/1996, as they owed the IRS about $2 million in back taxes dating back to 1974.

His 1996 bankruptcy was his third, he also filed in 1962 and 1965. Rooney has civic interests as an animal rights advocate and the spokesman for the California Department of Aging. He helped to launch and was once part owner of the TCBY yogurt chain, and he has written a series of novels and scripts. On 12/20/2000, after having a successful double-bypass surgery, Thousand Oaks, CA, he checked out of the Medical Center on Christmas Day. IMDb: Most Popular People Born In 1920 Most Popular People Born In 1920 1-50 of 2,801 names. Sort by: STARmeter▲ | A-Z | Height | Birth Date | Death Date 1. Maureen O'Hara Actress, Miracle on 34th Street In America, the early performing arts accomplishments of young Maureen FitzSimons (who we know as Maureen O'Hara) would definitely have put her in the child prodigy category. However, for a child of Irish heritage surrounded by gifted parents and family, these were very natural traits.

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Sign up to access the rest of the document. TERM 10000 general knowledge questions and answers No Questions Quiz 12 Ans 10000_questions 25 Mickey Rooney Movies | Movies.com Mickey Rooney Movies Died: Apr 6, 2014 Birth Name: Joe Yule, Jr. Biography: A versatile American screen actor and former juvenile star who made up in energy what he lacked in height, Mickey Rooney was born Joe Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920, in Brooklyn, NY. The son of vaudevillians, Rooney first became a part of the... Continued Mickey Rooney Jr. - Biography - IMDb Mickey Rooney Jr. Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trivia (8) Overview (3) 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (1) Mickey Rooney Jr. was born on July 3, 1945, as Joseph Yule III to movie legend Mickey Rooney and his second wife (among his own wives was Merci Montello , the Playmate of the Month for December 1972 as "Mercy Rooney").

A beauty pageant winner ("Miss Alabama 1944"), the former Betty Jane Rase met Mickey Sr. when he was stationed in the Army in Birmingham, Alabama, during World War II. Mickey Jr. was the first of his father's nine children. Growing up in Hollywood as the son of a famous movie star, Junior rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest stars on the planet, including Mae West , Elvis Presley and The Beatles . When he was 13 years old he met Judy Garland at a party at her Brentwood home. "So you're Mickey's first-born son," his father's most famous leading lady said. "You're a fine-looking young man." Unlike his extremely short father, the son would grow to be over six feet tall, taking after his tall mother. His father, in his 1991 autobiography "Life Is Too Short", admitted that he cheated on Betty Jane. According to Mickey Sr., she was "totally oblivious to anything going on outside our home." Mickey Sr. summed up their relationship as, "We just weren't compatible." The marriage ended in divorce in 1948. Mickey Jr. saw his father frequently after the divorce.

Sharing the name of the #1 box office star of 1939, 1940 and 1941 opened doors for Mickey Jr., although making the most of the opportunities wasn't always easy. He found out he had to work twice as hard to prove himself because of his famous name. He had his first taste of show business as one of the original Mousketeers on Walt Disney 's The Mickey Mouse Club (1955) (his father claims that Walt Disney named the famous Mouse after him). He and brother Tim Rooney were hired in 1955 due to their ability to sing, dance and act. After appearing on the show for a year, their contracts were terminated after the mischievous boys got into a hassle with the studio's paint department (they sneaked in and poured different colors of paint in different cans). Six years later, at age 17, he hosted "The Andy Hardy Theater" on local TV. Musically inclined, he played bass in Willie Nelson 's band and has recorded an album called "The Song Album." Like his height, his musical talent was inherited from his mother, who was a gifted vocalist.

His maternal grandmother taught him how to play the ukulele by showing him how to play chords, which he then played on an acoustic guitar. In addition to playing bass and guitar, Mickey Jr. plays drums, harmonica and keyboards and writes music. He, his wife Laura and their friend John Whittinghill perform rock 'n' roll and gospel music as "Mickey Rooney Jr. and Friends." A born-again Christian, Mickey Jr. met Laura, a Messianic Jew, in 1986. Through The Lord's Link Ministry, the couple minister and spread the Good News. Laura sings and plays a harp, while both she and Mickey Jr. testify to the "folly" of living "life in the fast lane." They reside in Hemet, CA. Mickey Jr. and his brother Tim operate the Rooney Entertainment Group, a movie and TV production company. He has written his autobiography, "Which One's Your Mother?" - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood Spouse (3) BIOGRAPHY: Mickey Rooney Lifetime twitter BIOGRAPHY Born Joe Yule Jr.

in 1920, Mickey, as he was later to be known, started out in showbusiness at an early age. His parents were popular entertainers on the Vaudeville circuit and Mickey soon became part of their act. Mickey’s parents divorced when he was three years old and it was his mother who encouraged her young son towards a career in entertainment by taking him to Hollywood to audition for Hal Roach's ‘Our Gang’ series. After missing out on the role, Mickey returned in 1926 and landed his first role in ‘Not To Be Trusted’. In 1927, he was cast as Mickey McGuire in a series based on a popular comic strip. Around the same time, Joe Yule Jr. became known as Mickey Rooney thanks to a legal name change by his mother. In 1934, a chance outing at a Los Angeles tennis competition saw the rising young actor spotted by MGM producer, David O. Selznick. Reporting back to studio boss Louis Mayer, Selznick announced that he had discovered a ‘goldmine’ and urged the studio to sign up Rooney.

Selznick signed Rooney up for ‘Manhattan Melodrama’ and following the release of the film in 1934 he was offered a long-term contract with MGM and was educated at the studio's School for Professional Children. From 1939-41, Mickey Rooney was the number one box office star in the US thanks to his roles in films such as ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ and the ‘Andy Hardy’ series. His fame peaked with a string of successful musicals with Judy Garland, including the Oscar nominated ‘Babes in Arms’ and classic films such as ‘National Velvet’ in 1944. Rooney and Garland developed a deep friendship over the years and starred in a total of nine films together. Rooney completed 21 months of military service during World War II and, although a successful radio broadcaster during this time, his career suffered upon his return from war. During the 1950s, he worked on the television series ‘Hey Mulligan’ and in 1960 he directed and starred in ‘The Private Lives of Adam and Eve’.

Rooney continued to make films during the 60s and 70s, and in 1979 he appeared in the acclaimed stage play 'Sugar Babies' with Ann Miller. In 1983, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted him their Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime of achievement. While his career has been long-lived, Rooney’s marriages have been somewhat shorter. Starting off with Hollywood starlet Ava Gardner in 1941, he has been married eight times. His married his eighth wife, Jan Chamberlin, in 1978 and the couple have been together for longer than all of his previous seven marriages combined. The couple lived in Los Angeles and continued to tour with a multimedia live stage production called ‘Let's Put On A Show!’, until they separated in 2012. Mickey Rooney died on April 6th 2014.

Question: Joe Yule Jr born 1920 became famous as who?
Answer: Mickey Rooney